The pieces inside are individually wrapped and look a lot like other Werther’s Original Caramel products. Each was well protected and emerged looking in good condition.

The pieces are odd. They’re stocky oval swirls of solid “white confection” in some sort of butter toffee flavor. I was thinking they’d be like butterscotch baking chips. The color is kind of dead - it’s not yellow (or even artificially colored at all) but more of a that grayish color that some people turn before they faint. They’re shiny, but not slick looking. The color reminds me of support stockings.

The smell is, well, buttery. It’s fake but not like the Buttered Popcorn Jelly Belly. It’s pleasant and not overwhelming. There’s a lot of milky dairy notes to it, and guessing from the ingredients that’s an authentic scent. The bite is like a white chocolate confection. It’s quite smooth but lacks a good melt - it’s like the melting point is a little too high for the human mouth. So it’s vaguely waxy and greasy at the same time. The flavor is lightly salted and buttery with a toffee and caramel note.

I just can’t figure out why I’d want to eat these, unless I was looking to put on weight and perhaps get some calcium (8% of your RDA in 7 pieces). They’re not too sweet, but also just not very satisfying for any of the cravings I get on a regular basis.

It’s interesting to see you review these Caramelts. Here in the UK they are due out soon to supplement the other chocolate flavours in the range. I totally get what you mean about the texture being somewhat odd. I thought it was a bit of unnatural melt that I wasn’t all that sure about at the end of the day. I thought it spoilt some pretty tasty chocolate caramels.

I am surprised, Cybele, that you didn’t compare the rather dead- or nylon-looking color of the actual candy with the picture (or drawing) on the package, which looks colorful and kind of pretty, and more what you’d think caramel is actually supposed to look like.

Sorry, it’s illipe butter (my old eyes are having trouble with too many I’s & L’s in sequence). Illipe has a higher melting point than cocoa butter so it’s more often found in candles, lip balms and soaps.

That doesn’t sound good. I know that you’re meticulous about your photography, and I’m sure that your color balance here is essentially correct (the wrapper looks “Werther’s”), and disgusting. If it were any other color it would look better, but beige isn’t a normal food color to me…even raw grains have more character to the color than that.

I first had these about 6-7 years. I had went over to my grandma’s house, and she offered me one. She told me they were soft, and not the hard candies (which I like, but they hurt my teeth). I kind of looked at her funny because they looked kind of weird to me, but I ate one anyways. They were so good, and between my grandma, my son, and I, we ended up going threw just about the whole bag. From then on everytime I went over to her house, she always had them in her candy dish. My grandma ended up passing away 4 years ago to lung cancer, and I guess I never thought about those candies again until today when I was at CVS and passed all the werthers caramel. I looked all over for the caramelts, but couldn’t find them. When I got home I looked on the werthers website and there is no mention of them. Are they not being produced anymore? If they are can anybody tell me where I could possibly find them? I live in KS….

That’s odd that yours were a whitish color. The ones I bought at the Caramel Shop in Disney’s Epcot’s Germany were the golden color of caramel and they were absolutely delicious! I LOVED them and have been looking for them everywhere! Thanks for letting me know you found them at Target. I will definitely have to look there now. But I found them wonderful and a change of pace from caramel that is of gooey and liquidy consistency and the other side of the coin where it is so sticky it sticks to ones teeth. I give them 5 stars. I wish I knew why yours were a whitish color as I said, mine were caramel colored.

Has anyone been successful at finding these in the U.S. This year? I haven’t located them anywhere and now they are no longer available online through Amazon either. This was our favorite candy! If anyone has success in locating a vendor please post,

I like the taste of these but since purchasing my first package a couple of days ago I have been ‘racking my brains’ to remember what other sweet they remind me of….And I have now remebered - It is CARAMAC - a chocolate bar shaped product originally made by MacKintosh and now by Nestles.

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